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Four hour round trip? Wests Tigers fans in Macarthur won’t travel to games at Western Sydney Stadium

11 May, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Inner city Wests Tigers fans are set to be the big winners if the club moves future games to the new Western Sydney Stadium in Parramatta. Fairfax is reporting that the

Flower children, man buns and harem pants: The Wests Tigers back at their “spiritual home” tonight

10 May, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Tonight an annual festival begins in Sydney’s Inner West where hippies, flower children and bohemians come together to celebrate their spirituality. Where freethinking, folk music and harem pants run free. This

From Stolen Generation to champion boxer: John Patten was also a handy league player

9 May, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Boxing historians know him as former Australian bantamweight champion Johnny Jarrett. So dominant he was in his own division, very few pugilists would challenge him. In fact, even the featherweights

How Henson Park helped me travel through time on a magic carpet called rugby league

7 May, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis On Saturday afternoon I experienced something absolutely strange. Almost too out there to put into words. I, wait for it, stepped into a time machine and travelled back to the early

Uncle Rupert, #CodeWars and double agents: The revolution and why rugby league is fighting back

2 May, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis “What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that

The Dally M Medal was compromised long before Ruan Sims voting drama

1 May, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis As a teenager representing the mighty Macarthur Saints in the local Campbelltown competition, I was lucky enough to be invited along to two Wests Juniors Player of the Year award nights.

Trent Robinson risks losing his job if he doesn’t make a tough call on Jake Friend

27 April, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Trent Robinson is revered as one of the top rugby league minds in the world. He has won a premiership, several minor premierships and is the coach of arguably the most

Rugby league men that never came home from war

25 April, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Imagine a world where your favourite NRL player was scoring dazzling tries one week and enlisting to go to war the next. Try to picture the legendary Johnathan Thurston, his infectious

Why we should always play the greatest game of all on Anzac Day

24 April, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is just after 4pm on Wednesday afternoon as 34 players stand side-by-side inside Allianz Stadium. One group is draped in the famous Red V – the other in

The XVII: Ball-players of the modern era

18 April, 2018 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY A.J NASH AND SCOTT DILLON Wally Lewis at lock? Sonny Bill at prop? Brandy on the wing? Yeah we went there. This is our Ball-Playing XVII of the modern era. Got to fit ’em

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